Directory Traversal Affecting libgs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBGS-8366982
  • published12 Nov 2024
  • disclosed10 Nov 2024

Introduced: 10 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-46954  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libgs.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libgs package and not the libgs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal.

CVSS Scores

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